rubrik City logistics - Telematics & Traffic

City - City - Logistics A uniform definition of urban logistics and the same major metropolitan logistics concept does not exist. The German Transport Forum and the German Logistics Association called city logistics as an entrepreneurial organization of freight journeys to optimize utilization and minimize the number of trips in urban areas. The concepts of city logistics include freight centers, cargo handling terminals and the cooperation of freight companies. The freight centers, for example, are defined as forward-looking system for solving regional transport and structural problems as follows: They are transport industrial parks with independent transport companies and system change points between transport modes. They enable the cooperation of all concerned in order to achieve synergy effects. GVZ are connection points of local and long-distance traffic as well as interface between transport modes. One goal of the GVZ development is the reduction in road congestion from freight transport and encouraging the use of more environmentally friendly rail and waterway. An essential part of a GVZ in this context is a terminal for combined transport (KV-Terminal). This enables efficient modal shift of containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers.